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August 29, 2008

A timely Wall Street Journal article given our upcoming Parent Back-to-School Day September 10 brings up some good conversation topics for us all, and I think you will agree. I appreciate the wisdom of emphasizing the home as the most important place for standards of school expectations to be enforced and encouraged. Schools obviously do their part, but the importance of what happens during the hours that our boys are not on our campus is difficult to overemphasize. As an experienced educator once said to me about day schools, "No one sleeps here."

The Parent
Meeting is scheduled for September 16, 2008 from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. in the Wunderlich Auditorium of the MUS Campus Center. We suggest that you email the science teachers if you plan on attending so we can get a head count and decide on refreshments.

August 25, 2008

Thanks to seventh-grade Parent Association representative Mrs. Meg Galvin for her organization with the parents of the Class of 2014. Her letter Download welcome_7th_grade_parents.pdf should hit the home front in the next few days, and it can be viewed here for your online file keeping.

It's official! We are now assembling our Lower School team to compete in the Science Olympiad. This file Download ScienceOlympiadTeamBApplication.pdf
should be filled out and returned to the office for your son to apply. MUS Science Department faculty Mrs. Analice Sowell and Mr. Wayne Mullins have initiated the effort, and if history is any indication, our boys are in for a real treat. Mr. Mullins represented the Alabama high school Science Olympiad state champs recently, and combined with Mrs. Sowell's experience as the former event coordinator of Metric Mastery at Christian Brothers University, our boys will have excellent leadership, knowledge, and support as they represent MUS' first Lower School team in this most prestigious competition.

Encourage your son to apply. He need not be a budding science genius. However, he does require passion for one or more of the categories. He may not yet realize his inner ability to command some mastery, so we want to set the table, as it were, as we build a competitive team. Stay tuned. Apply today!

Summer
Reading test scores are out! Your sons should have recorded their summer
reading scores in the back of their assignment books by now. These scores range
from a possible +3 to a -6. Your son’s score will be added to his 1st
quarter average.

Assignment
books (and your sons!) are the best way to know how your boys are doing in
their classes. They are to record all grades returned to them in class. They
are also to record all daily assignments in the calendar portion of their AB.
Students can access their daily assignments from the Assignment Grabber on the
MUS website.

Things tend
to get lost in the Lower School….Your sons have
been advised to write their names on the front of all their books, notebooks,
and ABs. Also, they have been advised never to loan their books and supplies to
their classmates.

September 5
marks the end of the first Progress Report period. Please do not let this be
your first exposure to your son’s progress thus far at MUS.

We look
forward to meeting/seeing you at Parent Back to School Day on September 10.
Plan to be here by 8:30 a.m. and stay through lunch. We have a great speaker
lined up and would love for you to stick around for lunch at 12. You will
receive more detailed information soon in the mail.